The Best Albums of the 2000s, Pt. 2

Here's the second half of the list I started yesterday. Once again, these are alphabetized by artist, not rank ordered in any way.

Artists M-Z

Arular, M.I.A.
Madvillainy, Madvillain
Blood Mountain, Mastodon
Crack The Skye, Mastodon
Leviathan, Mastodon
The Moon & Antarctica, Modest Mouse
Absolution, Muse
Boxer, The National
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, Of Montreal
Stankonia, Outkast
Person Pitch, Panda Bear
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, PJ Harvey
A Woman A Man Walked By, PJ Harvey & John Parish
Third, Portishead
XTRMNTR, Primal Scream
We Love Life, Pulp
Lullabies To Paralyze, Queens Of The Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf, Queens Of The Stone Age
Accelerate, R.E.M.
Amnesiac, Radiohead
Hail To The Thief, Radiohead
In Rainbows, Radiohead
Kid A, Radiohead
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II, Raekwon
Game Theory, The Roots
Rising Down, The Roots
The Drift, Scott Walker
( ), Sigur Rós
Sonic Nurse, Sonic Youth
Songs In A&E, Spiritualized
Girls Can Tell, Spoon
Kill The Moonlight, Spoon
Original Pirate Material, The Streets
First Impressions Of Earth, The Strokes
Is This It, The Strokes
Illinois, Sufjan Stevens
Shut Up I Am Dreaming, Sunset Rubdown
Mezmerize/Hypnotize, System Of A Down
Toxicity, System Of A Down
The Eraser, Thom Yorke
Dear Science, TV On The Radio
Return To Cookie Mountain, TV On The Radio
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?, The Unicorns
Elephant, The White Stripes
White Blood Cells, The White Stripes
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
Apologies To The Queen Mary, Wolf Parade

Fever To Tell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Best Albums of the 2000s, Pt. 1

As part of the new Pretzel Logic regime, I’ve vowed to stop inundating my readers with multi-part lists, featuring my favorite alterna-rock guitar heroes or whatever. That said, there’s one last list I want to subject you to. In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve just ushered in an entirely new decade, meaning that all the music from the 2000s has been released and critics can go ballistic arguing about what the decade’s most enduring albums should be. As one last hold-over from the old Pretzel Logic, I want to share my choices for my 100 favorite albums of the past ten years. Today, you get the first fifty and the list will be completed tomorrow. I haven’t rank ordered them and I’m not going to bore you with paragraphs of praise. I’ve just alphabetized them by artist. Basically, if someone asked me “what albums from the 2000s do you think I should listen to,” my response would look something like this:

Artists A-L

Labor Days, Aesop Rock
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective
The Crying Light, Antony & The Johnsons
I Am A Bird Now, Antony & The Johnsons
Funeral, Arcade Fire
Neon Bible, Arcade Fire
Favourite Worst Nightmare, Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Arctic Monkeys
Bang Bang Rock & Roll, Art Brut
God Loves Ugly, Atmosphere
Since I Left You, The Avalanches
Sea Changes, Beck
Silent Alarm, Bloc Party
Crimes, The Blood Brothers
Untrue, Burial
The Cold Vein, Cannibal Ox
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Mouse And The Mask, Danger Doom
Reality, David Bowie
Picaresque, The Decemberists
Microcastle, Deerhunter
Boy In Da Corner, Dizzee Rascal
Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, Drive-By Truckers
Decoration Day, Drive-By Truckers
The Dirty South, Drive-By Truckers
Southern Rock Opera, Drive-By Truckers
The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem
Fever Ray, Fever Ray
Embryonic, The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
News And Tributes, The Futureheads
Fishscale, Ghostface Killah
Grinderman, Grinderman
Face Control, Handsome Furs
Hercules And Love Affair, Hercules And Love Affair
Préliminaires, Iggy Pop
Turn On The Bright Lights, Interpol
The Black Album, Jay-Z
The Blueprint, Jay-Z
So This Is Goodbye, Junior Boys
The College Dropout, Kanye West
Late Registration, Kanye West
808s And Heartbreak, Kanye West
Aha Shake Heartbreak, Kings Of Leon
Silent Shout, The Knife
Sound Of Silver, LCD Soundsystem
Drum’s Not Dead, Liars
Up The Bracket, The Libertines